Appeal No. 1999-0880
Application No. 08/700,610
with which applicants were involved. That problem was the
elimination of DIP switches to set codes in a transmitter and
receiver. Applicants’ solution was to employ RF signals and
to use a non-user changeable code in the transmitter and have
the receiver learn that code from the transmitter when the
device is in a program mode. We do not find Early’s key for
operating a locking mechanism by optical means to be
reasonably pertinent to applicants’ problem of eliminating the
use of DIP switches in RF-remote control devices nor do we
find Early suggestive, in any manner, of a non-user-changeable
code in a transmitter which is learned by a receiver in a
program mode.
We find Early to constitute non-analogous art and, as
such, to be not applicable to the instant claimed invention.
Since the examiner has relied on Early for each and every one
of the rejections of the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103, we will
not sustain the rejection of claims 20 through 45 under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103 based on any combination of references set forth by the
examiner. None of the remaining references discloses or
suggests the claimed non-user changeable code in a transmitter
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